Recent content by Grandma Weedstein

I just stumbled upon your journal now — it was great seeing them grow in “time lapse” photography! You did a great job. Be sure to include photo/review of finished product.

If you’re willing to spend the time and money, micro-irrigation systems like Rainbird have timers and tubing and drippers that would work for two weeks. But you’d need to set it up this weekend. Might be worth it because that looks like it’s gonna be a nice crop.

I am writing under the assumption there’s nobody you trust enough to take care of them for a couple weeks.

Sounds like you got no choice. I’ve harvested plants early due to weather and they still get you high. But yeah, they could still use some time.

That’s good, they should do great with southern exposure. Brick walls like that radiate stored heat, too, which could help if you’re facing frost. In my experience, moisture is the bigger worry during harvest season. I’ve had my temps drop to like 27 F and the plants were OK. But the humidity...

I think you should still give them some time. The buds will shrink a lot post-harvest. It looks like you’ve got them right next to a wall. Depending on the orientation, that may be curtailing sun exposure and slowing their development. Since you’re flowering outdoors right now, I am assuming...

Something must be going on with your light for that one on the left to be so stretched out. It looks like an outdoor plant that’s been grown the shade, no offense. How high is the light above that one?

Interesting. Is there a waxy layer like on a laurel leaf? Is it due to the cultivar?

Are the leaves really that shiny that they look like they’ve been waxed? Or is that just the reflection from the camera flash or something? If they really are that shiny, is that a symptom of excess nitrogen? I haven’t grown any plants with leaves that shiny and reflective. Perhaps it’s a...

Wow I haven’t seen such dense perfect clusters on a male before. I bet the progeny will be super impressive!

What is the temperature and how close is your light? How often are you watering?

It really doesn’t — they’re pretty delicate little fellas and aren’t heavy enough to fall out of sock with the vacuum running. Seriously, it’s worked for me several times.

I don’t disagree with the bud washing advice but as a preliminary step, I put a sock over the end of a vacuum cleaner hose and suck them off. (Suck them off, hehehe, LOL.) I just figure it’s a belt-and-suspenders type of thing. The sock is to prevent too much damage to the plant. You just have...

In case that wasn’t coherent, I mean that loading up on nutrients up until the moment of harvest probably won’t help much, but starving a plant during the final flowering period can only hurt. You draw the line at a certain point, but intentional starvation has no basis in science.

I like your post buddy but I can’t agree with you on the flushing. I work in agriculture and no other crop sector does this. Yeah, they may lay off nutrients just as the crop is ripening to avoid waste, but there is no way regular farmers starve their plants right before harvest for “quality.”...